Federica Du Pasquier is a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School and a lecturer at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. A humanitarian diplomat, lawyer, and strategist, she is currently developing a project on revitalizing international law while spearheading a new initiative at the intersection of science, technology, and the future of peace and war at the Geneva-based think tank, GESDA.
Du Pasquier served on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for nearly a decade as a humanitarian diplomacy coordinator, contributing to dialogue with conflict parties in Ukraine, Ethiopia, Syria, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory and to its legal outreach at the U.N. For three years, she worked closely with the ICRC president on creating diplomatic opportunities for humanitarian action in some of the world’s most acute crises.
